Christian school asks teachers to sign contract saying they could be sacked for being openly gay
Teachers at a Christian school in Australia were asked to sign contracts which said they could be fired for being openly gay.
Citipointe Christian College in Brisbane also attempted to make students sign “discriminatory” agreements in February, resulting in its principal, pastor Brian Mulheran, standing down and the contracts being withdrawn, The Guardian reported.
Families were asked to sign documents stating that gay acts are “immoral” and “offensive to God”, as well as implying that “biological sex” would be used to recognise transgender students at the school. “I hope that by withdrawing the contract we can return all our focus to the Christian education of our students,” Mulheran said in an apology to students who felt “they would be discriminated against” by the contents of the document.
However, the aforementioned outlet has since seen an employment contract signed by Ruth Gravestein, the acting principal. The agreement is part of the workplace contract of any new teacher at the establishment and is dated as February 2022, after the withdrawal of the controversial document issued to students and the apology that followed. “It is a genuine occupational requirement of the college that the employee not act in a way he knows, or ought reasonably to know, is contrary to the religious beliefs of the college,” the contract states. “Nothing in his/her deliberate conduct should be incompatible with the intrinsic character of their position, especially, but not only, in relation to the expression of human sexuality through heterosexual, monogamous relationships, expressed intimately through marriage. “Your failure to abide by such requirements expressed in the above clauses could constitute a breach of your employment
